The First Men in the Moon
London: Geroge Newnes, 1901.
First British edition, first printing. vii, [i], 342 pp, illustrated with 12 full page plates. Bound in Currey's "A" binding with dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with black endpapers. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, faint sunning to spine and light reading wear. Front hinge starting, faint foxing to preliminaries and terminals. An uncommonly bright copy of Wells' sci-fi romance chronicling a lunar journey by two Englishmen who discover the Moon's core is inhabited by extraterrestrial creatures called Selenites. A pioneering work of alien invasion literature that inspired C.S. Lewis to pen his Space Trilogy.
Price: $3,000
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